Develop your drawing techniques and improve your design skills in this exploration of the landscape. Emphasis will be placed on basic design principles, value, perspective, texture, and shadows. Students will learn to create broad-stroke drawings with clearly rendered shapes, values, and points of interest.

Explore the fundamentals of line drawing with pen and ink. Emphasis will be placed on pen stroke techniques to produce form, texture, shape, value, and points of interest. Experiment with hatching, contouring, and stippling techniques. Strengthen your drawing skills while discovering the versatility of this fast, indelible medium.

Take the frustration out of observational drawing by understanding the fundamental elements of representational rendering. Emphasis will be on composition, measuring, space, line, shape, form, gesture, and value. Students will use various drawing media to capture still lifes and landscapes.

NOTE: In order to receive certification credit, students must complete both sections I and II.__________________________________________________________________

Continue from Drawing Fundamentals I to develop the necessary skills of observational drawing by understanding the fundamental elements of representational rendering. Emphasis will shift to refining students understanding of composition, measuring, space, line, shape, form, gesture, and value. Students will use various drawing media to capture still lifes and landscapes.

PREREQUISITE: Must take Drawing Fundamentals I or have prior drawing experience

NOTE: In order to receive certification credit, students must complete both sections I and II.

Learn the fundamentals of drawing from life while challenging your ability to see the human figure. Students will develop their representational drawing skills while working with techniques to establish depth, create fields of value, and direct the viewer's focus. Emphasis will be on rendering the human form with gesture, contour, line, and value.

Learn the fundamentals of drawing the human face in this three day workshop. Beginning with gestures to capture the essence of a subject to the formal elements of portraiture including composition, proportion, value and texture. Students are encouraged to bring photos of their preferred subjects.

Work from a live model as you refine your figure drawing skills. This dynamic class offers both short and long poses, and emphasizes the role of gesture, contour, line, and value in creating successful representational renderings of the human figure. Focus will be on developing advanced figure drawing skills with an attention to detail and precision.

Dramatically improve your representational drawing skills by using the rules of perspective to convincingly convey a sense of depth and realism. Explore one, two, three, and four-point linear perspective, as well as the techniques used to create atmospheric perspective.

Master the essential elements of drawing in this intensive, comprehensive crash-course. Fundamentals such as gesture, contour, line, form, composition, and perspective will be covered. Students will be encouraged to experiment with specialized drawing techniques.

Learn drawing skills and techniques specific to rendering from two-dimensional images. Develop your ability to draw what you see, while creating atmospheric depth, movement, and light. Gesture, contour, line, value, form, and crosshatch will be covered. Students are encouraged to bring photographs of still-lifes, landscapes, animals, and human figures.

Learn the fundamentals of drawing animals in motion in this three-day intensive workshop. Spend a morning at the beach drawing the live action of birds, dogs, and wildlife. Begin with quick gestures capturing the essence of movement, and develop longer, sustained drawings expressing the complexity of movement. Bring photos of your pet for inspiration. All drawing media welcome. fileadmin/content/eac/Class__Syllabus___Materials/Wayman_Syllabus_Drawing_Motion_Animals.pdf

Explore the versatile medium of colored pencils while learning color theory concepts and developing your mark-making skills. Emphasis will be on value, form, and line, as well as layering and burnishing techniques. Students will experiment with various pencils and papers as they create a series of thumbnail studies and a final 8x10 colored drawing.